.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 296 127
Rank change year-on-year +45 -169 +34
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 625 391 1,978
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 0.99% 2.09%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.20% 5.01% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 597 328 1,823
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,875 £38,069
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,100 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,676 7,802 18,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.43% 19.73% 19.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6,619 5,241 14,679
10th Percentile £40,725 £38,890 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +6 142 £55,000 -8.33% 159
South East +65 135 £55,000 +10.00% 152
Midlands +33 93 £55,000 -8.33% 97
London -88 91 £85,000 +6.25% 77
East of England +59 87 £65,000 +18.18% 107
North West +12 75 £55,000 -8.33% 71
South West -8 73 £52,500 -12.50% 54
West Midlands +5 48 £55,000 -8.33% 48
East Midlands +4 45 £55,000 +4.76% 49
North East -14 45 £65,000 +44.44% 34
Yorkshire -53 22 £52,500 -12.50% 55
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.12%) IIS
3 5 (0.80%) CMS
4 3 (0.48%) Confluence
5 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.32%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.16%) DNN
6 1 (0.16%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Immediacy CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Kentico
6 1 (0.16%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Magento
1 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 460 (73.60%) Azure
2 142 (22.72%) Azure DevOps
3 97 (15.52%) AWS
4 91 (14.56%) GitHub
5 82 (13.12%) Azure AI
6 76 (12.16%) GitHub Copilot
7 51 (8.16%) Azure Logic Apps
8 46 (7.36%) SaaS
9 42 (6.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 41 (6.56%) Power Platform
11 38 (6.08%) Serverless
12 25 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
12 25 (4.00%) Power Automate
12 25 (4.00%) PowerApps
13 24 (3.84%) Azure Functions
14 22 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (3.20%) Azure Service Bus
17 19 (3.04%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 19 (3.04%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.96%) Internet
2 6 (0.96%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.48%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.32%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) AMQP
5 1 (0.16%) Modbus
5 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (44.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 217 (34.72%) MongoDB
3 148 (23.68%) SQL Server
4 83 (13.28%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (5.44%) Power BI
6 14 (2.24%) MySQL
7 13 (2.08%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.12%) Redis
9 7 (1.12%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.96%) NonStop SQL
11 5 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.80%) GIS
12 3 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.32%) MariaDB
14 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
14 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (4.96%) Git
2 11 (1.76%) JIRA
3 7 (1.12%) GitLab
4 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.80%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.48%) MSI
5 3 (0.48%) Vite
6 2 (0.32%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.32%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.32%) NUnit
6 2 (0.32%) webpack
7 1 (0.16%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.16%) MSTest
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 91 (14.56%) Finance
2 49 (7.84%) Social Skills
3 32 (5.12%) Advertising
4 30 (4.80%) Games
5 22 (3.52%) Marketing
6 21 (3.36%) Retail
7 19 (3.04%) Banking
8 11 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (1.44%) Automotive
10 8 (1.28%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.28%) Front Office
10 8 (1.28%) Law
11 6 (0.96%) Legal
11 6 (0.96%) Music Industry
11 6 (0.96%) Public Sector
12 5 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.80%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.64%) Back Office
13 4 (0.64%) Electronics
13 4 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 502 (80.32%) Developer
2 352 (56.32%) .NET Developer
3 109 (17.44%) Senior
4 108 (17.28%) Software Developer
5 66 (10.56%) Senior Developer
6 64 (10.24%) C# Developer
7 54 (8.64%) C# .NET Developer
8 50 (8.00%) Lead
9 46 (7.36%) Software Engineer
10 45 (7.20%) Full-Stack Developer
11 32 (5.12%) Lead Developer
12 31 (4.96%) Senior Software Developer
13 27 (4.32%) .NET Software Developer
14 25 (4.00%) .NET Software Engineer
15 23 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (3.36%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
17 20 (3.20%) C# Software Developer
17 20 (3.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 19 (3.04%) Azure Developer
19 17 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 625 (100.00%) .NET
2 335 (53.60%) ASP.NET
3 268 (42.88%) ASP.NET Core
4 151 (24.16%) React
5 150 (24.00%) HTML
6 148 (23.68%) CSS
7 143 (22.88%) Entity Framework
8 138 (22.08%) Blazor
9 125 (20.00%) RESTful
10 115 (18.40%) Vue
11 112 (17.92%) AngularJS
12 111 (17.76%) .NET Framework
13 108 (17.28%) ASP.NET Web API
14 96 (15.36%) Node.js
15 82 (13.12%) ML.NET
16 67 (10.72%) LINQ
17 52 (8.32%) REST
18 40 (6.40%) JSON
19 22 (3.52%) WPF
20 21 (3.36%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.60%) Greenfield Project
2 33 (5.28%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.08%) Digital TV
4 13 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.08%) Sports Betting
4 13 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 12 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (1.92%) Hedge funds
6 11 (1.76%) iPhone
6 11 (1.76%) Mobile App
6 11 (1.76%) Social Network
7 9 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.12%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.12%) BBC
8 7 (1.12%) Social Media
9 6 (0.96%) Client/Server
9 6 (0.96%) Low-Code
10 5 (0.80%) AI Agents
10 5 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.92%) VMS
2 11 (1.76%) Android
3 9 (1.44%) Windows
4 3 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (57.76%) Full-Stack Development
2 281 (44.96%) Agile
3 192 (30.72%) CI/CD
4 173 (27.68%) DevOps
5 134 (21.44%) Microservices
6 108 (17.28%) AI
7 102 (16.32%) Machine Learning
8 95 (15.20%) Multithreading
9 91 (14.56%) Software Engineering
10 67 (10.72%) OO
11 57 (9.12%) SDLC
12 51 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (8.16%) TDD
13 50 (8.00%) Scrum
14 48 (7.68%) Analytics
14 48 (7.68%) Containerisation
14 48 (7.68%) User Experience
15 41 (6.56%) Business Intelligence
15 41 (6.56%) MVC
16 38 (6.08%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 581 (92.96%) C#
2 380 (60.80%) SQL
3 185 (29.60%) JavaScript
4 153 (24.48%) TypeScript
5 35 (5.60%) PowerShell
6 19 (3.04%) Python
7 11 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (1.60%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.12%) Bicep
10 4 (0.64%) Java
10 4 (0.64%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.48%) Bash
11 3 (0.48%) PHP
11 3 (0.48%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.16%) C++
12 1 (0.16%) F#
Qualifications
1 40 (6.40%) Degree
2 19 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.12%) Security Cleared
4 6 (0.96%) Azure Certification
5 5 (0.80%) AWS Certification
5 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.64%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.32%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.32%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.36%) QA
2 15 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.64%) WCAG
4 3 (0.48%) NCSC
5 2 (0.32%) GDPR
5 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.32%) ITGC
5 2 (0.32%) SLA
6 1 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 141 (22.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 131 (20.96%) Kubernetes
2 21 (3.36%) Terraform
3 1 (0.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 349 (55.84%) Microsoft
2 30 (4.80%) Facebook
3 26 (4.16%) Google
4 19 (3.04%) Adobe
5 12 (1.92%) YouTube
6 7 (1.12%) Apple
6 7 (1.12%) Sony
6 7 (1.12%) Yahoo!
7 4 (0.64%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.64%) Workday
8 3 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (0.48%) Splunk
9 2 (0.32%) Foundry
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle
9 2 (0.32%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.32%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.16%) Alterian
10 1 (0.16%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.16%) IBM
10 1 (0.16%) Reuters